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measured by this index and homicide rates. The results nevertheless show that other types of crime decrease with liberalizing …This paper investigates recent claims that ‘neoliberal' policies and reforms are associated with higher homicide rates … and other types of crime. Using a panel of the 50 US states observed between 1981 and 2005 and the Economic Freedom Index …
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Standardized World Income Inequality (SWIID) version 5.0 for a sample of countries up to 115 over 1970–2014 period, and via dynamic … consistently significant liberalization policies across the baseline estimations and various sensitivity tests. The paper is …
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Social trust has been identified as a catalyst for reforms. We take the literature further in two ways. First, we make a fine-grained analysis of mechanisms through which social trust enables liberalizing reforms - by strengthening the ability to overcome obstacles in the political process...
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While the association between economic freedom and long-run economic growth is well documented, the parallel research literature on the distributional consequences of economic freedom is full of conflicting findings. In this paper, we take a step towards reconciling the two literatures by...
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